Research interests

Jill Pell is the Henry Mechan Professor of Public Health and Director of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. She is also an Honorary Consultant in Public Health in Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board. She was Professor of Epidemiology at the British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Research Centre in Glasgow before moving to her current post. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.

Her research covers epidemiology and natural experiments and often uses e-health records and record linkage. She is Deputy Director of Farr Scotland; an MRC funded centre charged with advancing the use of Big Data for research. Her main research interests are chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disease and diabetes, maternal and child health, obesity and tobacco control. She is a member of the CLEAN collaboration; a pan-Scotland group charged with evaluating the impact of the Scottish smoke-free legislation. She was the Principal Investigator on a number of CLEAN studies including studies evaluating the impact on cardiovascular and respiratory disease and pregnancy complications. The former study was voted, by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, to be the most important research advance of 2008.

Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.